Chart music is not representative.
It has always been thus.
There has always been shit in the charts, good grief I lived through the 70's. There was so much shit!
There is always good music and "popular music" by which I mean music for people with cash to spend.
OK. I don't wish to go through my thesis again...... but..........one last time then I'm referring back to here.....
There are people who enjoy music. They enjoy all sorts of music. They grow up listening to contemporary music, they grow and they look back and appreciate classical, jazz, blues, folk and much more. They grow and they accept each new form as it appears, they separate the innovators from the followers, the wheat from the chaff, and they maybe even create themselves. They are the MUSICIANS.
Then there are people who like what their generation likes. The peer group conformists who are dancing at their wedding's to the same thing they were dancing to at their 6th form disco! They like the music that their friends like, and their friends like the music that the marketing man told them to like??? These are CONSUMERS!
And why not. Who says music should be important? But also, just because something sells does not make it good. In his lifetime Van Gogh was unrecognised! Many great artist died in poverty and unrecognised..... but I'll bet that Jimmy Page will be remembered long after Kylie is forgotten.
In the words of the late Bill Hicks "If any of you here are in sales or marketing.............Kill yourselves......"
So in conclusion. There has always been shit, live with it. JUST KEEP ON BEING YOURSELF.